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Italy bans mobile phones in classroom

Trying to stop kids messing around

16 March 2007 22:27 GMT / By Stuart Miles

Kids beware, Italy has just banned school children from using mobile phones in classrooms in an attempt to stop ringtone disrupting lessons and prevent pupils video recording lessons.

The new rules, set out by the government say that schools will have to discipline children who persist in using their phones, with punishments ranging from the confiscation of phones to excluding pupils from final exams according to Reuters.

"Education Minister Giuseppe Fioroni said strict sanctions should be applied 'in cases of particular and extreme seriousness' where violation of the rules has legal repercussions or endangers safety", Reuters is reporting.

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